[CentOS] ypserv errors

2009-01-16 Thread Mag Gam
In my syslog I get many of these types of errors: ypserv [4818]: refused connect from 127.0.0.1:57124 to procedure ypproc_match [domain.com,passwd.adjunct.byname;-1) Any idea what this error is? TIA ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists

Re: [CentOS] nvidia motherboard with mcp78b chipset

2009-01-16 Thread partha chowdhury
Jerry Geis wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a new motherboard I am trying to install centos 5.2 x86_64 on. > it has the mcp78b chipset. > > seems like the SATA disk is not detected. tells me no install media found. > > I tried the install line with "pci=nomsi" that did not help. > I tried changing th

Re: [CentOS] Port Forwarding

2009-01-16 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, To implement either 1) or 3) you need to mix iptables and iproute2 to route packages matching specific criteria. The "Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO" has a specific section on this, and an example very similar to yours (although they show how to route outgoing e-mail traffic a

Re: [CentOS] Port Forwarding

2009-01-16 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:19, Thom Paine wrote: > Is there some step with networking that I am missing in getting this to work? Yes, the packet must return to the original source in the Internet with the y.y.y.y source IP. Your machine with IP x.x.x.x probably has a default gateway in eth0

Re: [CentOS] Manually rolling logfiles over

2009-01-16 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Joseph L. Casale wrote on Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:11:35 -0700: > How can I do this w/o restarting services or rebooting? Neither restarting services nor rebooting rotates logs. man logrotate shows you how to do that manually what logrotate does during the night. You can also do a dry-run. Kai --

Re: [CentOS] CentOS failover cluster

2009-01-16 Thread John R Pierce
Giuseppe Fuggiano wrote: > What should I use to configure a failover cluster under CentOS? Is > there Red Hat Cluster Suite or something like that? > > Thank you in advance. > in general, 'heartbeat'. RHCS (Red Hat Cluster Service) is some wrappers around heartbeat, and rather a finicky c

Re: [CentOS] Manually rolling logfiles over

2009-01-16 Thread John R Pierce
Joseph L. Casale wrote: > How can I do this w/o restarting services or rebooting? > centos is setup using logrotate, which rotates logs according to various conf files (/etc/logrotate.conf has the global defaults, and /etc/logrotate.d/* has the app specific settings) this is normally invoked

[CentOS] CentOS failover cluster

2009-01-16 Thread Giuseppe Fuggiano
What should I use to configure a failover cluster under CentOS? Is there Red Hat Cluster Suite or something like that? Thank you in advance. -- Giuseppe Fuggiano ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Manually rolling logfiles over

2009-01-16 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>If I understood well what you are looking for, to manually rotate your >logs, you could launch logrotate as follows: > >logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.d/ That was the ticket! thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mai

Re: [CentOS] Manually rolling logfiles over

2009-01-16 Thread Giuseppe Fuggiano
2009/1/16 Joseph L. Casale : > How can I do this w/o restarting services or rebooting? If I understood well what you are looking for, to manually rotate your logs, you could launch logrotate as follows: logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.d/ -- Giuseppe Fuggiano

Re: [CentOS] Manually rolling logfiles over

2009-01-16 Thread nate
Joseph L. Casale wrote: > How can I do this w/o restarting services or rebooting? copy/truncate. copy log file to a new file and truncate the original (cat /dev/null >filename) Or setup a logrotate config with the copytruncate option. There is a chance I believe to drop some log events between

[CentOS] Manually rolling logfiles over

2009-01-16 Thread Joseph L. Casale
How can I do this w/o restarting services or rebooting? Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] vixie-cron package from RHEL 5 FasTrack?

2009-01-16 Thread Ned Slider
Alfred von Campe wrote: > On Jan 16, 2009, at 15:49, Ned Slider wrote: > >> I've rebuilt most of the upstream fastrack packages for CentOS-5.2 >> here: >> >> http://centos.toracat.org/ned/CentOS-5/testing/ >> >> Usual disclaimers apply - provided "as is", and use at your own risk. > > Great, I

Re: [CentOS] vixie-cron package from RHEL 5 FasTrack?

2009-01-16 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Jan 16, 2009, at 15:49, Ned Slider wrote: > I've rebuilt most of the upstream fastrack packages for CentOS-5.2 > here: > > http://centos.toracat.org/ned/CentOS-5/testing/ > > Usual disclaimers apply - provided "as is", and use at your own risk. Great, I grabbed a copy but will probably not i

Re: [CentOS] vixie-cron package from RHEL 5 FasTrack?

2009-01-16 Thread Ned Slider
Alfred von Campe wrote: > What is the best way to get the RPM described in the following URL > installed on CentOS 5.2: > >http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0586.html > > I have users who can't run cron jobs because their home directories > are NFS mounted, and I believe installing t

Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 4.7 or 5.2 32 bits O.S. for ORACLE DB server??

2009-01-16 Thread Warren Young
Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > The comparison of PAE to EMS/XMS is completely bogus, the > technologies aren't alike at all. They are alike in that they add an extra layer of indirection to work around the fact that the pointer size cannot change. > PAE does *NOT* involve any bank switching; I

Re: [CentOS] Cron daemon with better precision?

2009-01-16 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 13:46 -0600, Tim Nelson wrote: > Greetings list- > > I'm on the hunt for a cron scheduler that supports definitions to the second. > Obviously, every cron daemon supports minute/hour/etc but I have a special > application that requires finer granularity. > > I know I know

Re: [CentOS] Cron daemon with better precision?

2009-01-16 Thread andrew . cotter
> Greetings list- > > I'm on the hunt for a cron scheduler that supports definitions to the > second. Obviously, every cron daemon supports minute/hour/etc but I have a > special application that requires finer granularity. > > I know I know... someone will say "The load will be horrendous on your

Re: [CentOS] Cron daemon with better precision?

2009-01-16 Thread nate
Tim Nelson wrote: > Greetings list- > > I'm on the hunt for a cron scheduler that supports definitions to the > second. Obviously, every cron daemon supports minute/hour/etc but I have a > special application that requires finer granularity. Try this ? http://vexus.ca/products/avatar/v4/ My comp

[CentOS] Cron daemon with better precision?

2009-01-16 Thread Tim Nelson
Greetings list- I'm on the hunt for a cron scheduler that supports definitions to the second. Obviously, every cron daemon supports minute/hour/etc but I have a special application that requires finer granularity. I know I know... someone will say "The load will be horrendous on your system" o

[CentOS] vixie-cron package from RHEL 5 FasTrack?

2009-01-16 Thread Alfred von Campe
What is the best way to get the RPM described in the following URL installed on CentOS 5.2: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0586.html I have users who can't run cron jobs because their home directories are NFS mounted, and I believe installing this RPM would fix the problem. I re

Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 4.7 or 5.2 32 bits O.S. for ORACLE DB server??

2009-01-16 Thread nate
R P Herrold wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, nate wrote: > >> I would not use CentOS at all if for anything else than Oracle >> won't support it. Oracle linux is a clone of RHEL and I believe >> is pretty cheap, otherwise RHEL 5 Advanced. > > ummm .. a recent UBL was a rebuild of CentOS SRPMs Doesn't

Re: [CentOS] postfix relay and mail host for HPC cluster

2009-01-16 Thread Tony Schreiner
On Jan 16, 2009, at 1:40 PM, Ned Slider wrote: > Tony Schreiner wrote: > >> >> How can I get my cluster master to not relay messages addressed to >> @master.cl.bc.edu? > > I'm no expert, but I'm guessing a transport map on the cluster > master to > relay locally is required? > > So /etc/postfix

[CentOS] CENTOS 4.7 or 5.2 32 bits O.S. for ORACLE DB server??

2009-01-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, nate wrote: > I would not use CentOS at all if for anything else than Oracle > won't support it. Oracle linux is a clone of RHEL and I believe > is pretty cheap, otherwise RHEL 5 Advanced. ummm .. a recent UBL was a rebuild of CentOS SRPMs - Rhss herrold

Re: [CentOS] postfix relay and mail host for HPC cluster

2009-01-16 Thread Ned Slider
Tony Schreiner wrote: > > How can I get my cluster master to not relay messages addressed to > @master.cl.bc.edu? I'm no expert, but I'm guessing a transport map on the cluster master to relay locally is required? So /etc/postfix/transport on the master with an entry something like this: ma

Re: [CentOS] kickstart over ilo serial port

2009-01-16 Thread nate
Scott Silva wrote: > No they don't. The text console is always available. It is just the graphic > console that you need a license for. They did in iLO 2 on my 380G5s, as soon as the system POSTed even in text mode the vga text console would go away and a license screen would show. G4s and G3s VG

[CentOS] postfix relay and mail host for HPC cluster

2009-01-16 Thread Tony Schreiner
I've so far been unable to make the following work: I have a small cluster with a master node ( called bayes.bc.edu on the public network, and called master.cl.bc.edu on the internal 10.0.0.0 network). and a number of nodes which are purely on the private network. I want the master to rec

Re: [CentOS] kickstart over ilo serial port

2009-01-16 Thread Scott Silva
on 1-16-2009 2:51 PM nate spake the following: > John Doe wrote: >>> Or you could plug a cable into the iLO port and use the text console >>> through >>> your browser (https:///)... >> Or ssh... > > Modern iLOs disable the VGA text console after the system POSTs, > to use it you need the iLO advan

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Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 4.7 or 5.2 32 bits O.S. for ORACLE DB server??

2009-01-16 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> mcclnx mcc wrote: > > we plan to setup our ORACLE database server (32 bits DB) and use dell > > r900 server. This server can put up to 128GB RAM. > > We are thinking use 32 bits CENTOS 4.7 or 5.2. My concern about > > CENTOS 5.2 is it only support up to 16 GB RAM on 32 bits O.S. > > Any suggest

Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 4.7 or 5.2 32 bits O.S. for ORACLE DB server??

2009-01-16 Thread nate
mcclnx mcc wrote: > we plan to setup our ORACLE database server (32 bits DB) and use dell r900 > server. This server can put up to 128GB RAM. > > We are thinking use 32 bits CENTOS 4.7 or 5.2. My concern about CENTOS 5.2 > is it only support up to 16 GB RAM on 32 bits O.S. > > Any suggestion? I

Re: [CentOS] Port Forwarding

2009-01-16 Thread nate
Thom Paine wrote: > I'm having trouble getting port forwarding working on my one box. I think port forwarding is working fine, it's the routing of the traffic back to the source that is not because linux doesn't handle multiple default gateways very well out of the box. Look into multi homed routi

Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 4.7 or 5.2 32 bits O.S. for ORACLE DB server??

2009-01-16 Thread Warren Young
mcclnx mcc wrote: > we plan to setup our ORACLE database server (32 bits DB) and use dell > r900 server. This server can put up to 128GB RAM. > > We are thinking use 32 bits CENTOS 4.7 or 5.2. My concern about > CENTOS 5.2 is it only support up to 16 GB RAM on 32 bits O.S. > > Any suggestion?

Re: [CentOS] kickstart over ilo serial port

2009-01-16 Thread nate
John Doe wrote: >> Or you could plug a cable into the iLO port and use the text console >> through >> your browser (https:///)... > > Or ssh... Modern iLOs disable the VGA text console after the system POSTs, to use it you need the iLO advanced license, so usually easier to just use serial.. nate

[CentOS] Port Forwarding

2009-01-16 Thread Thom Paine
I'm having trouble getting port forwarding working on my one box. I have 2 incoming internet connections. I have 2 servers on these connections. pubinternet privinternet eth0:x.x.x.x eth0:y.y.y.y eth1:10.10.10.1

[CentOS] nvidia motherboard with mcp78b chipset

2009-01-16 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all, I have a new motherboard I am trying to install centos 5.2 x86_64 on. it has the mcp78b chipset. seems like the SATA disk is not detected. tells me no install media found. I tried the install line with "pci=nomsi" that did not help. I tried changing the SATA in the bios to AHCI and that

[CentOS] CENTOS 4.7 or 5.2 32 bits O.S. for ORACLE DB server??

2009-01-16 Thread mcclnx mcc
we plan to setup our ORACLE database server (32 bits DB) and use dell r900 server. This server can put up to 128GB RAM. We are thinking use 32 bits CENTOS 4.7 or 5.2. My concern about CENTOS 5.2 is it only support up to 16 GB RAM on 32 bits O.S. Any suggestion? __

Re: [CentOS] kickstart over ilo serial port

2009-01-16 Thread John Doe
> Or you could plug a cable into the iLO port and use the text console through > your browser (https:///)... Or ssh... JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] kickstart over ilo serial port

2009-01-16 Thread John Doe
> From: Ian Forde > On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 11:11 +0100, Jure Pečar wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Has anyone managed to redirect output of kickstart install to ILO > > serial console? > > > > I have to test and deploy the remote install with kickstart but have > > trouble debugging it because I can't

Re: [CentOS] Squirrel 1.4.8-8.el3.centos.1

2009-01-16 Thread Henk van Lingen
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:52:46AM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > > > Since then I have some users who have problems with their sessions. > > They are logout out every now and them, and some sent mails have another > > user address in the From header. It looks like squirrel is mixing up > > s

Re: [CentOS] 3Ware 9650SE tuning advice

2009-01-16 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
Hi, about I/O sched, deadline gives better performance. echo "deadline" > /sys/block/sdX/queue/scheduler in /etc/rc.local will do the trick. Someone said to me that setting /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio (as a % of total ram) so that it fits into your 3ware cache could be a good idea. I have no numbers